Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1ui">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> Leon Email<br> QotW: Which functional world would you live in?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157112615301671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159221664218455">Chuck</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for July 15, 2020<br> This is the 197th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1741, that Aleksei Chirikov sighted land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.<br> Also today in 1799, The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.<br> July 15, 1806, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.<br> Also today in 1910, In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.<br> It was on this date in 1916, that In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).<br> 66 years ago today, First flight of the Boeing 367 -80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.<br> It was 65 years ago that Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.<br> That same date in 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project featured the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.<br> July 15, 2003, AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.<br> It was also this date in 2006 that Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, was launched.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Austrian-German mathematician and theorist, Wilhelm Wirtinger, born on this date in 1865.<br> Jean-Baptiste Charcot, the French physician and explorer was born 153 years ago today.<br> Born July 15, 1906, English-German engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut.<br> Robert Bruce Merrifield, the American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 99 years ago today.<br> American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate, Leon M. Lederman, born on this date in 1922.<br> Also turning 90 today is American mathematician and computer scientist Stephen Smale.<br> Also born on that same date in 1950, Greek-American journalist and publisher (The Huffington Post), Arianna Huffington.<br> Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist, Ashoke Sen, born on this date in 1956.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays (July 15-21)<br> <br> 18 – Lord Doomicus<br> 18 – Nikolai from Dancing With Elephants<br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA/viewform">Birthday Calendar</a> link.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 15, 2020<br> News<br> <br> <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vintage-super-mario-bros-video-game-sells-114000-1302902">Vintage ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Video Game Sells for $114,000 | Hollywood Reporter</a><br> <a href="https://lifehacker.com/how-to-see-a-comet-that-wont-be-visible-for-another-6-0-1844345120">How to See a Comet That Won’t Be Visible for 6,000 Years</a><br> <br>
